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The article mentions potentially using LPRs to catch illegal immigrants -- how? Wouldn't this fall under the umbrella of just catching unregistered vehicles?
by Wingman4l7 14y ago
The article mentions potentially using LPRs to catch illegal immigrants -- how? Wouldn't this fall under the umbrella of just catching unregistered vehicles? You need a driver's license to register a car, and you need a birth certificate to get a driver's license.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoPure FUD. If you click through to the CNN article, you'll see that the ICE has asked companies to help them figure out a way to do it. It is largely based on the idea that they will compile a list of license plates that can be associated with "at-large, convicted criminal aliens". I'm not sure why they need to throw the word "alien" in there when just being able to capture "at-large, convicted criminals" is reason enough. It shouldn't really matter that they were aliens. I'm guessing it is to garner some bias against such a system since specifically targeting illegal aliens seems to be a constant hot button.